Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.